Mere Morality

Author : Lewis B. Smedes
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802802576
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mere Morality written by Lewis B. Smedes and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1989-03-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Smedes has written a penetrating study in ethics based on the five "moral" commandments--those pertaining to honor of parents, lying, stealing, adultery, and murder. Smedes examines what the commandments actually tell us to do and why, and how they can be understood amid the ambiguities of everyday living.

Author : Dan Barker
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1634311795
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mere Morality written by Dan Barker and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives us to be good? How do we even know how to be good? Philosophers and theologians have dealt with such questions for millennia, but Dan Barker thinks the answers are not so complicated. In Mere Morality, he argues there's no need to appeal to supernatural commandments or the fear of some higher power when considering morality. Stripping "good" and "evil" down to the basics, he offers a simple compass for navigating life's most difficult moral and ethical dilemmas.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599641
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason written by Immanuel Kant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

Author : Steven Urban
Publisher : Brown Chair Books
ISBN 13 : 0997841710
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mere Christianity Study Guide written by Steven Urban and published by Brown Chair Books. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Michael Flescher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013414
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality written by Andrew Michael Flescher and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are content to see ourselves as ordinary people—unique in ways, talented in others, but still among the ranks of ordinary mortals. Andrew Flescher probes our contented state by asking important questions: How should "ordinary" people respond when others need our help, whether the situation is a crisis, or something less? Do we have a responsibility, an obligation, to go that extra mile, to act above and beyond the call of duty? Or should we leave the braver responses to those who are somehow different than we are: better somehow, "heroes," or "saints?" Traditional approaches to ethics have suggested there is a sharp distinction between ordinary people and those called heroes and saints; between duties and acts of supererogation (going beyond the expected). Flescher seeks to undo these standard dichotomies by looking at the lives and actions of certain historical figures—Holocaust rescuers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, among others—who appear to be extraordinary but were, in fact, ordinary people. Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the mere avoidance of wrongdoing. Andrew Flescher sets a stage where we need to think and act, calling us to lead lives of self-examination—even if that should sometimes provoke discomfort. He asks that we strive to emulate those we admire and therefore allow ourselves to grow morally, and spiritually. It is then that the individual develops a deeper altruistic sense of self—a state that allows us to respond as the heroes of our own lives, and therefore in the lives of others, when times and circumstance demand that of us.

Author : Lewis B. Smedes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mere Morality written by Lewis B. Smedes and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of Smedes's study is the commandments--in particular those five of the Ten Commandments which call us to respect other persons: "Honor your father and mother"; "You shall not kill"; "You shall not commit adultery"; "You shall not steal"; "You shall not bear false witness." Each of these commandments pinpoints the moral nucleus of one sector of life in community--family, marriage, property, communication, and the preservation of life itself. Using these commandments as a basis, Smedes asks three questions: What does God command us to do? Why does he command this? And how can we obey this in the ambiguities and conflicts of real life?--From publisher's description.

Author : Traumear
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244038007
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality Towards the Ethical Life & Learning to be Truthful written by Traumear and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first essay casts some light on the difference between morality and ethics and on how we can order our thoughts a little on those topics. The second essay takes us on an exploratory inward journey in the direction of good spirit.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0060652888
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mere Christianity written by C. S. Lewis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.

Author : Francis Herbert Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Studies written by Francis Herbert Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlook and Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: